200 A-GUICUrTiriiAL MUSfctJ!^*. 



.Calculation ?s forni'Ml from th- tUitum of Mr. PlV. (ii^fi ^ 

 great advocate I'ol horse laboui ), that we have 500,00c) 

 carthorses; and as the aj-i^u.ncut was not adduced to 

 serve (he author's proposition, hut the reveise, shonle! 

 any cri or be found, it would be UiOifi likely in his fa^ 

 vour ; (liat is to say, the number of cart-horses wiH moie' 

 probably exceed 500,000 than come wiliiin that ;uimbei*. 

 Not only i.) this point of view is the effect visible, but the 

 extravagant a<Joption ai this aniinai culs both ways; 

 for whiUt he cats ns up, we do not cut him. 



*' Some will, perhaps say that this argamerit d es nat 

 appiv, because we arc mere in want of corn than butch- 

 er's meat ; but the price of one, inilucnces the price of 

 the other, with very few exdepndns: '' down horn^ 

 down corn," says the proverb. As an arficle of fofxf, 

 the preference has lonjj been given to the ox rather lliaii 

 ilrc horse, the prejudice being strong in favour of roast 

 beef, and there is every appearance of its con'.inuance; 

 Should the taste of the public vary in this pai ticuia; , a 

 part of these objections to the cart horse will lose theit 

 effecf. 



" By reference to a correct statement of tne compar- 

 ative exigence between his Majesty's horse teams, as 

 once used, and the Hereford, Devon, and Glamorgan 

 dx-teams, during the year 1797, it appears that, of 6^ 

 liorscs, and of 107 oxen, there is a balance in favour of 

 the latter of 5131. 15s. Gd. ; or, on the same comparative 

 average statement of each animal singly, tiie horse at 

 ^01 Cfs. per annum, and the ox 71. 18s. 6d. per annum, 

 there appears a balance in favour of the ox of 131. Os 6d. 

 not to mention the difference in favour of oxen in the 

 prime cost, and wear and tear of the tackle, if worked in' 

 yokes and bovvs ; t;lie casualties and ailments to which 

 horses arc more peculiarly liable ; llie little attendance 

 rcffOrired by the ox j and the consideration, that if an ac*- 

 ci<lent happens to the horse, he is worth no more than 

 his skin ; whereas, in this case, an ox in any tolerable 

 Vnrking order, is ever worth half liis former value*' 



